Storm Intelligence on Apple TV
The Apple TV app catches up with the 11.5 work: storm cells and Storm Tracker on the radar, Compare cities, Stargazing, Time Machine with a chooser built for a remote, and background pack requests from the couch.
Everything in this release
Storms on the radarTV
- Storm Cells draws every tracked storm on the radar with its probability of turning severe — NOAA/CIMSS ProbSevere guidance, updated every two minutes — so you can tell which storm in a line is the one to watch.
Severe RiskTV
- On the rare day the national outlook reaches Enhanced or higher, a Severe Risk card leads the forecast with the risk and the hours it covers. Select it to open the radar.
Storm Tracker and the storm reportTV
- A storm closing on your location gets a card that leads with the verdict: on track for you, or expected to miss. Severity reads in the title — Possible, Likely Severe, or Dangerous — with how far off it is riding along.
- A storm on track counts down to arrival live; one that will pass by says how wide, with no ticking clock.
- Hail, tornado and damaging-wind callouts are capped to the two that matter most, and the chance of turning severe appears once, in the sentence that defines it.
- After a storm goes over you, a card records what actually happened — "Passed directly over you," or how far to which side — with the time window, estimated hail size and peak severe probability up front. It reads as a record of a storm that has already passed, and shows for one session before stepping aside.
- Storm reports appear only when a storm actually reached your location or came violently close.
- Storm cards focus on storms that matter — only nearby, imminent storms appear.
- Meteor shower cards step back after the shower's peak instead of lingering at full prominence.
Smart Data PointsTV
- The forecast can pick its own conditions to show — UV while the sun is up, accumulation once it's raining, gusts when it's gusty — instead of holding a fixed set all day.
- What's shown is ordered by what matters right now, and anything that repeats what's already on screen drops out.
Compare citiesTV
- Up to five saved cities sit alongside your forecast with their local time, conditions and temperature.
Stargazing and the night skyTV
- Stargazing Conditions shows tonight's best window, darkness, Moon and weather, with an hourly quality chart.
- The astronomy event browser comes to the TV: upcoming showers, eclipses and planetary highlights, each with your local viewing outlook and best window.
- Tonight's most relevant sky event appears in the forecast with its best local viewing time.
Time MachineTV
- Time Machine opens any supported date for the selected place — past or future — with nearby days alongside it.
- Its date chooser is built for a remote rather than a touchscreen: one row per unit, so up and down pick the unit and left and right move the date.
BackgroundsTV
- Request a background pack for your city straight from the TV. It uses where you are, so there is no typing at all, and request status appears in the same place.
Also in this releaseTV
- Appearance settings set on the Apple TV are no longer overwritten by your other devices, and the TV gets the same "Sync Appearance Across Devices" opt-out.
- Screens that a remote could not reach, scroll or read are fixed throughout: the Sign In button in Account & Sync, event details, the data-point screen's Back button, and the Nearby Days row in Time Machine.
- A storm on its way now ranks above tonight's sky event rather than below it.
- The radar's layer buttons sit in the same order as on the other platforms, and VoiceOver reads each one with its on/off state.
- A PM2.5 air-quality forecast joins the Air Quality data point, charted hour by hour for the day you have selected, each bar tinted by its own air-quality category.
- The Scottish Highlands scene is redrawn across every hour and weather condition.
- What's New opens the full illustrated release history.
- The rain chart clears when you switch to a city it doesn't cover, instead of holding the last city's rain.
- Small caption text throughout the app renders at caption size again.
- Precipitation amounts follow your region's number formatting.
- Weather and alert data arrive faster during busy conditions.
- Sunrise and sunset quality forecasts return faster.
- The mini radar preview shows precipitation outside the United States, and labels how old the frame is when it isn't close to live.
- A sunset quality score for a sunset that has already happened says which day it was for.
- The animated sky no longer re-scatters its clouds and stars when the screen refreshes.
- Backgrounds crossfade when the scene changes frame, so coming back to the app hours later, or the conditions turning, blends instead of hard-cutting.
- The tutorial card no longer flashes back on screen while it animates away.
- Location search finds parks, ski areas, and landmarks, not just street addresses.
- Location search rows line up evenly — long park and landmark addresses trim to one line instead of wrapping.
- Forecast charts are redrawn with a smoother, gradient-filled curve in place of the boxed-in plot and the dot on every hour.
- A marker shows the current hour, and a second one follows the selection as you move across the chart.
- Switching data points now animates, and Tides, Air Quality and Stargazing share the same lighter styling.
- Cloud cover, humidity and visibility draw as lines, so the trend through the day reads at a glance.
- New installs start in your region's formats — units and the 24-hour clock come from the TV's language and region settings.
- Radar in Australia and Europe opens on its regional layer, with the NOW marker in the right place.
- Global radar now plays into the future — the worldwide precipitation layer continues past NOW with forecast frames, so you can scrub ahead anywhere on Earth.
Weather alertsTV
- Overlapping alerts of the same type now appear separately instead of merging
- Alerts are ordered by severity, with the most serious shown first
- The shading under the hourly chart fades from the line down to the base of the chart.
- The hourly chart's rain band stays inside the plot, lined up with the temperature curve drawn over it.
- Clock times read correctly when you pick your own app font in Settings › Theme — the gap that opened up in front of AM and PM is gone.
